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My Roku 3 has easily become the most used device in my home, just short of my television. I have managed to convert my entire DVD collection to MP4; play all my movies through Plex. At this time, I only have one subscription that I’m paying for, and that’s Netflix. Roku has just announced that …

About a week ago, I signed up for my free trial of RedBoxInstant. the free trial is extended to new subscribers to RedBoxInstant and being a person that still rents DVDs from time to time, RedBox is the perfect option. It’s low cost and your ability to go online and reserve the movies that you …

Does anyone remember the early days of HBO and Showtime? When cable start presenting the services; man everyone thought it was awesome, playing movies all the time with no commercials, no editing, and getting new movies every month— always getting like two to five movies a month, per channel… Back then it was pretty cool. …

Rumors of Blockbuster operating in the red have been circulating throughout the Internet for the past couple of years, perhaps even more, but it seems Blockbuster has finally filed for bankruptcy – Chapter 11 voluntarily. As the movie studios stand in line waiting to get their money, Blockbuster still has plans to try to restructure …

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